Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 137

The horror of the next story is somewhat mitigated by a slight infusion of the grotesque--but this may arise from a mere accident, and be due to the exceptional cheerfulness of some link in the chain of its narrators.

Who acts: slight infusion, this · What happens: mitigate, arise, be · To what, where: horror, mere accident

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (slight infusion, this), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horror	det
2	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mitigated	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 story	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 story	det
5	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 story	amod
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 horror	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 mitigated	aux:pass
8	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	9 mitigated	advmod
9	mitigated	mitigate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	by	by	ADP	_	13 infusion	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 infusion	det
12	slight	slight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 infusion	amod
13	infusion	infusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mitigated	obl
14	of	of	SCONJ	_	16 grotesque	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 grotesque	det
16	grotesque	grotesque	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 infusion	acl
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 arise	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 arise	cc
19	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 arise	nsubj
20	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 arise	aux
21	arise	arise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 mitigated	conj
22	from	from	ADP	_	25 accident	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 accident	det
24	mere	mere	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 accident	compound
25	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 arise	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 cheerfulness	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 cheerfulness	cc
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 cheerfulness	cop
29	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	33 cheerfulness	case
30	to	to	ADP	_	29 due	fixed
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 cheerfulness	det
32	exceptional	exceptional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 cheerfulness	amod
33	cheerfulness	cheerfulness	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 arise	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 link	case
35	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	36 link	det
36	link	link	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cheerfulness	nmod
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 chain	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 chain	det
39	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 link	nmod
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 narrators	case
41	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 narrators	nmod:poss
42	narrators	narrator	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 chain	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 mitigated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mitigate	present · passive	a slight infusion	the horror of the next story		somewhat property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	arise	may	this		a mere accident		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	infinitive				due the exceptional cheerfulness; of some link in the chain of horror's narrators	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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